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The 1956 book When Prophecy Fails describes one of the most famous case studies in social psychology. The researchers Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter covertly joined a small, apocalyptic UFO group, observing how members prepared, including quitting jobs, giving away possessions, and severing ties with skeptics. According to the book, when the group’s predicted disaster did not occur, instead of simply abandoning their beliefs, many core members strengthened their commitment and actively sought new converts. 

But it didn’t actually happen like that. In truth, Festinger and his fellow researchers glossed over evidence that contradicted their thesis and actively influenced the UFO group to get the result they wanted.

This is the discovery of our guest Thomas Kelly. By combing through newly unsealed materials from Festinger’s archives, UFO and occult magazines of the 1950s, later writings by group leader Dorothy Martin, he discovered crucial information that was omitted by the original book.  Kelly detailed his startling findings in a paper published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences titled Debunking “When Prophecy Fails.”

Travis interviews Kelly to discuss the real story behind When Prophecy Fails, the possible consequences of invalidating Festinger’s study, and how his work fits in the wider “replication crisis” in experimental psychology. 

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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

SOURCES

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jhbs.70043

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails” (Free Preprint Version)

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/9j7qc_v2

Failed Prophecies Are Fatal

https://journal.equinoxpub.com/IJSNR/article/view/33085/32543

Cults, Conscripts, and College Boys: Whither Cognitive Dissonance? (Preprint)

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xdj2u_v1

When “When Prophecy Fails” Fails (E350)

Travis View visits Jake & Julian to talk Reddit bans, 4chan / 8chan reactions and theories, Q drops, the Voat exodus, Tech companies becoming the arbiters of truth, the MSM (or Main Stream Media for normies), and George Papadapoulos' Twitter renaissance. Oh and Werner Herzog interviews Alex Jones on our show.

Episode 7: The Great Reddit Bans of 2018 - feat. Travis View

Jared Holt (journalist for Right Wing Watch, host of the SH!TPOST Podcast) joins Jake’s & Julian to discuss his contribution to getting Infowars banned from multiple platforms, that sweet sweet George Soros money, whether it’s alright to trust corporations to regulate speech, the time Alex Jones called him a Nazi in public, and what the deal is with this pesky FISA declassification stage show that keeps entertaining the QAnon community.

Episode 8: The Information Wars feat. Jared Holt

Joined on this one by Nathan Bernard, who tells us about founding Bernard Media, working with Vic Berger & Tim Heidecker, being doxxed Gavin McGuiness & his Proud Boys, smeared by Mike Cernovich, and bitched at by Ben Shapiro. We talk about Vladislav Surkov and our age of post-information, comedy in the age of whatever you want to call this hell, and probably you, buddy.

Episode 9: Doxxed But Not Forgotten Feat. Nathan Bernard

Jordan Uhl joins us to talk about the Compassion Party, a Q-believing, hyper-religious, pro-marijuana, anti-abortion party running candidates in Rhode Island — who were arrested the day after we recorded this episode with 48 pounds of weed. We then move on to Jordan's amazing Go Fund Me for a New Jersey man who was videotaped shaving on a commuter train (by some asshole). Other topics: homelessness, poverty, Bernie, and reasons for the rise of the QAnon movement.

Episode 10: The Compassion Party Feat. Jordan Uhl

We discuss the general QAnon version of Adrenochrome, then present some scientific research, then move on to some evidence of very real silicon valley technocrats consuming blood via a company called Ambrosia, which has allegedly caught the attention of wealthy investor Peter Thiel. Travis also tells us about Jewish Blood Libel, an old anti-semitic conspiracy theory that has similarities with the current movement's beliefs. Fun episode!

Episode 11: Adrenochrome Feat. Travis View

Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.